Question

Kellyanne hired Joshua from Southwest University. He was an amazing employee and exceeded all her expectations. The next year, she received an application for a job opening from another graduate from Southwest University. She was very excited to hire another outstanding candidate. Kellyanne has ________.

Answer 1

Answer:

Representativeness heuristic bias

Explanation:

Representativeness heuristic bias occurs when there are similar events whose probability of occurrence is assumed to be the same. People mistakenly assume there is a close relationship between the two events than there really is.

For example of John is a lawyer, he is judged to be a lawyer because of expression of various traits associated with lawyers.

Kellyanne hired Joshua from Southwest University. Because of his outstanding performance, it is assumed that other considered from Southwest University will also perform outstandingly.

This is a form of representativeness heuristic bias